Museum Holdings

The Society’s museum collection includes paintings, textiles, silver, artifacts, posters and ephemera from the early 18th century through the 20th century. The collection reflects the variety of American Jewish culture as expressed in the synagogue, in ritual practice, in the home, in entertainment and even in sports.

For further information about the collection, or loans for exhibition, please contact Susan Malbin, Director of Library and Archives.

The American Jewish Historical Society’s Museum collection has been represented in the following exhibitions:

Forging Their Identity: Jews in Early New York, 1654-1825 at the Museum of the City of New York

From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America at the Library of Congress and Cincinnati

Sting Like a Macabee: The Golden Age of the American Jewish Boxer at the National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia

A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life at Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, NY

Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America at the Jewish Museum, NY